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Dec 17, 2009

Microsoft Agrees To Free Browser Choice

Microsoft has agreed to offer its users a choice of Web browsers. This has ended of a long antitrust case started by the European Union. Now Microsoft will offer a ballot screen to its European users who have Internet Explorer as their default Web browser. [Continue]

Jun 1, 2009

uzbl – The Stripped Down Browser

I am trying out the uzbl browser for last couple of days. It follows the unix philosophy to strip down a browser of everything else other than visiting the web sites. Everything else, even the management of cookies, bookmarks, history and downloads is outsourced to external scripts. [Continue]

Mar 20, 2009

IE8 Is Here

Microsoft IE8 is finally here, popular opinion is that it will find its users only amongst the existing IE users. IE8 is not trying to appeal to users of its competitors. However, I sincerely hope that it at least appeals to IE6 users enough to make it extinct soon. [Continue]

Mar 17, 2009

Rethinking Tabs In Firefox 3.2

Like many other features in the software world, we seem to have weared out the tabs. Oliver Reichenstein proposes a browser design, inspired by media management, such that the need for tabs is reduced. Tabs, when overused, get unusable. [Continue]

Mar 15, 2009

Being Compatible With IE8’s Compatibility View

IE8 is almost like two different browsers – one in the backward compatibility mode, and the other in standards compatibility mode. The unfortunate part is the IE8 using the compatibility view is not the same as its predecessor IE7. There is a good news that IE8 is CSS 2.1 compliant and that it does offer a standards mode. [Continue]

Mar 11, 2009

Future Of Microsoft’s Browser

Microsoft’s browser seems to be scheduled for heavy changes. Not only does Windows 7 allow the user to switch off IE8, there are rumours that IE8 might be the end of Trident – rendering engine. While Microsoft has fought to ensure that IE8 is more compatible with its past mistakes than with standards, a news that future versions of IE might move to a different rendering engine is conflicting. [Continue]

Feb 21, 2009

Warn Yourself If You Are Using IE6, And Upgrade

You will see the IE6 warning if you are reading this blog using IE6 or its older brethren. I have used conditional comments to detect the browser. <!--[if lte IE 6>] <p id="ie6msg">You are using an outdated browser. [Continue]

Feb 19, 2009

The Best Way To Get Rid Of IE6

Norway is showing us the best way of getting rid of IE6. But instead of talking only about their web site, the message should advocate aternatives for better and safer Web experience. In fact, we should make something like getridofie6.org or something and make screenshots and videos available there. [Continue]

Feb 16, 2009

Will Google Chrome Be Late?

Google Chrome have decided to go with Gtk+ for the Linux version. However you still see mentions of Qt in the developers mailing list. I too had wondered the same after Qt went LGPL. [Continue]

Sep 2, 2008

Google Chrome Raising Its Head

The Google browser has raised its head, and is being called Google Chrome. It is based on Webkit, and aims to be clean and fast. I did not find anything new, most of the new browsers talk about this. [Continue]